Life is progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Onelearns by doing the thing; for though you think you know it, you have nocertainty until you try.

Faith is continuation of reason.

People whoare too concerned with how well they are doing will be less successful andfeel less competent than those who focus on the task itself... Somepsychologists call it a conflict between egoorientation, or between extrinsicand intrinsic motivation...

None but the productive can be strong; and none but the strong can be free.

No one is free who does not Lord over himself.

Afanatic is a person who can’t change his mind and won’t change.

War does not determine who is right - only who is left

There is no comparison between that which is last by not succeding and that what is last by not trying.

Of all human foibles love of living is the most powerful.

Conflictis inevitable, but combat is optional.

In oneof our concert grand pianos, 243 taut strings exert a pull of 40,000 poundson an iron frame. It is proof that out of great tension may come great harmony.